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Dear Friends of Pacific Voyagers,
We are so proud of the renaissance in vaka culture that we have collectively inspired and lived across the great Pacific region. Together we embrace a vision for a holistic, sustainable, fossil fuel free future for the Pacific Islands built upon respect for traditional knowledge and...

A glut in crude isn’t affecting new demand for wind-energy. Even as falling prices made oil more affordable last year, investors directed a record $329 billion to install new wind- and other clean-energy technologies, said Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Record installations helped Europe’s three publicly traded wind-turbine makers...

New Zealand climate scientists have echoed desperate cries from small Pacific nations in the firing line of rising seas.
Representatives from 17 Pacific states, including Kiribati President Anote Tong, have been meeting leaders and experts in Wellington this week as part of Victoria University's Pacific Climate Change Conference.
The university's Professor James...

Kiribati has turned to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help build artificial islands in an effort to save the low-lying Pacific nation from rising sea levels.
The country's outgoing President Anote Tong has told the ABC's Pacific Beat program that despite global commitments on reducing carbon emissions,...

A Nauru climate change activist, Nerida Ann Hubert, says a brain drain and a generation's worth of school drop outs are preventing the country from tackling climate challenges.
Ms Hubert was speaking at a Pacific climate change conference at New Zealand's Victoria University.
She told delegates the government is acting at an...

Hōkūleʻa departed Natal on Friday, February 12, 2016, at 10:00am Brazil time (3:00am HST) and set sail for St. John U.S. Virgin Islands. During the 10-day stop in Natal, a new crew arrived from Honolulu to relieve the 12 crew members who just completed the 3,000 nautical-mile journey from Cape...

Less than 2C of global warming for the Earth, the target agreed by leaders at the COP21 climate conference in Paris last November, doesn’t really sound too ambitious. In fact, many of us would welcome an extra couple of degrees warmth. So what is all the fuss about?
Unfortunately the warming...

After 30 years and almost 50,000 nautical miles at sea using only nature's clues to guide him, Jack Thatcher admits his incredible voyaging days are numbered.
But as one of only a handful of master navigators in the Pacific, Thatcher still has much to do – entrusting an almost-lost ancient art...